Jarrett Jack pulled off a few of the highlight plays of the night in his first triple-double in nearly six years, inbounding the ball to himself off the back of an unsuspecting defender for a game-tying basket late in the first overtime and then whipping a feed to Kristaps Porzingis for a buzzer-beating dunk less than a minute later.

The veteran point also committed a couple of key gaffes in the second extra session, however, including one costly turnover in the final minute and a clanked three-point attempt on the final possession of the Knicks' heartbreaking 122-119 loss in double-OT on Wednesday to Chicago at the Garden.

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"It's tough," said Jack, who finished with 16 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for his first triple-double since March of 2012 with New Orleans. "I'm not looking at anybody, I'm looking at myself first and everybody else, you know what I'm saying? I don't say nothing to anybody else or ask of anybody else what I'm not asking of myself. I know I've got to give more. I've got to go out there and set the tone a little better. I put a lot of things on my shoulders.

"Yeah, a triple-double is cool, but we lost. That's just the way I look at things. I look at things in terms of wins and losses. I've got to go out there and do more, whatever it is…Everybody has to step it up one more notch, that's what it's going to take to get to where we want to go."

"I'm not one for moral victories. My coach used to say stuff like we play good enough to lose," Jack said. "If losing doesn't get under your skin, I don't know what will in this game. We're a team kind of fighting and jockeying for postseason play.

"In the Eastern Conference, man, we have opportunities, but we can't waste them or keep letting games like this fall by the wayside, like we can just make them up."

Jack did what he could to give his team a chance to win, especially in the first overtime. With the Knicks down two in the final minute, Jack inbounded the ball along the baseline off of the back and turned Bulls defender Kris Dunn and back to himself for a game-tying floater. He then zipped an entry feed to a cutting Porzingis for a one-handed stuff for a 112-112 tie to force a second overtime.

But with the Knicks trailing 118-116, Jack sailed a pass in transition way over the head of Michael Beasley for a turnover with 18 seconds remaining. He then misfired on a three from the top of the key that could have tied the game as the final horn sounded.

"The end of games, that's when he's usually good and focused in and not afraid to take the big shot," Jeff Hornacek said. "You saw that at the end even though he didn't make it, there was no hesitation in the shot. It was a great all-around game. He was going after the ball. He got rebounds for us. He made passes. He had a couple turnovers, but a great all-around game for him."